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3 Quick Tips Stay Warm on Campus

InfoLink - Sun Nov 03, 2013

3 Quick Tips to Stay Warm on Campus

It's heeeeerrrrrreeeeeee. That’s right, I mean snow. That beautiful, white, fluffy blanket that covers EVERYTHING for what seems like at least 7 months out of the year, makes you freeze your butt off and fills your boots, making your feet sopping wet through all your lectures is on its way.

It isn’t all bad though because here’s a few tips to keep you warm (and your feet dry) through this winter season.

1. Bring hot chocolate, tea or coffee with you in the mornings

Coffee

It may seem too easy but simple solutions are most often the ones that are forgotten. Your drink can serve as a hand warmer waiting for the bus or walking from one end of campus to the other but when you take a sip you can feel the heat travelling from head to toe.

2. Bring soup for lunch

Soup

Remember when you were in elementary school and your mom would send you with that ugly brown thermos every day in the winter? She always filled it with hot chocolate or more often soup so you would have a warm lunch before you went outside for recess. Well it seems mom was onto something because this is one of my favorite ways to warm up on a cold day. Like the warm drink mentioned above, soup will make you feel warm from head to toe and as an added bonus you, it will fill you up giving you the ability to focus and making it so you don't have to hush your stomach throughout your classes.

3. Take the pedways and interior walkways

This is great! It may take a few extra minutes but you can get between most buildings on campus either without going outside or with only enduring the cold for a very short time. Did you know you can get from Timms to Tory without stepping foot outside? How about from Dentistry/Pharmacy to Bio-Sci? It is amazing how connected this campus is! If you want to plan a route with as little frost exposure as possible, pick up a Campus Map from any of our booths, looks for the light blue dotted lines through the buildings and away you go! The perfect way to get to class without risking frostbite!